and you make an offering by fire to the Lord from the herd or from the flock (whether a burnt offering or a sacrifice for discharging a vow or as a freewill offering or in your solemn feasts) to create a pleasing aroma to the Lord,

Suppose your own full brother, ¹  your son, your daughter, your beloved wife, or your closest friend should seduce you secretly and encourage you to go and serve other gods ²  that neither you nor your ancestors ³  have previously known, ⁴ 

Then call, ¹  and I will answer, or I will speak, and you respond to me.

“If a man opens a pit or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

“If a fire breaks out and spreads ¹  to thorn bushes, ²  so that stacked grain or standing grain or the whole field is consumed, the one who started ³  the fire must surely make restitution.

“‘When a person sins ¹  in that he hears a public curse against one who fails to testify ²  and he is a witness (he either saw or knew what had happened ³ ) and he does not make it known, ⁴  then he will bear his punishment for iniquity. ⁵ 

“When a body has a burn on its skin ¹  and the raw area of the burn becomes a reddish white or white bright spot,

But if there is a reddish white infection in the back or front bald area, it is a disease breaking out in his back or front bald area.

You must not have sexual intercourse with your sister, whether she is your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, ¹  whether she is born in the same household or born outside it; ²  you must not have sexual intercourse with either of them. ³ 

“‘A man or woman who ¹  has in them a spirit of the dead or a familiar spirit ²  must be put to death. They must pelt them with stones; ³  their blood guilt is on themselves.’”

or a man who touches a swarming thing by which he becomes unclean, ¹  or touches a person ²  by which he becomes unclean, whatever that person’s impurity ³  –

Suppose a prophet or one who foretells by dreams ¹  should appear among you and show you a sign or wonder, ² 

by serving other gods and worshiping them – the sun, ¹  moon, or any other heavenly bodies which I have not permitted you to worship. ² 

David went on to say, “As the Lord lives, the Lord himself will strike him down. Either his day will come and he will die, or he will go down into battle and be swept away.

“But if he strikes him out of hatred or throws something at him intentionally ¹  so that he dies,

or with princes who possessed gold, ¹  who filled their palaces ²  with silver.

Or speak ¹  to the earth ²  and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea declare to you.

Will ¹  there be an end to your ²  windy words? ³  Or what provokes ⁴  you that you answer? ⁵ 

why it is so dark you cannot see, ¹  and why a flood ²  of water covers you.

Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew?